Art of knitting fabric onto prefabricated fabric blanks



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ART or KNITTING memo ONTO mammmourn ann e BLANKS Fritz'Lambaeh, Tenafly, N. 1., assignor to Bobert Reiner, Incorporated, Weehawken, N. J.

Application October 4,1939, Serial No. 291,829

In Germany March ,6, 1939 65 Claims.

other machine known as the footer in order to knit the foot portion onto said leg portion.

Also, in the manufacture of that type of stock- 1 ing wherein the body thereof is knitted as a continuation of a special welt, it is necessary to transfer said welt made on a special machine onto the stocking knitting machine so that the body of the stocking may be knitted onto the welt. 7

Likewise, according to a more recently developed method of manufacturing stockings wherein heel tabs are knitted directly onto, and as continuations of, the high heel portions of a combination leg and foot blank, and the sole portions of said blank are interknitted with said heel tabs as the knitting thereof progresses, it is necessary to transfer the combination legand foot blank onto a knitting machine which has become known in the trade as a heeler.

drivemechanism, and a pattern control mechanism, all of which are relatively-associated and co-furiction to render the knitting'machine fully automatic in that no manual operation is needed after the machine has once been set into operation to knit additional fabric onto a plurality of The transfer of pre-fabricated fabric has here- I tofore been generally accomplished by manual operation, which consumes considerable time and involves technical procedure. Moreover, in order to effect. the transfer operation in accordance I with the common practice, it is. necessary to stop theknitting machine after each press-off operation so that the yarn may be-pulled out, broken,

and hung into aclamping device, after which the machine is again started.

It is, therefore, the primarypurpose of-the" invention to provide a fully automatic knitting machine, that is, a knitting machine which, once set into operation, will continue towork repeatedly without interruption to feed prefabricated blanksi transfer such" blanks, knit -additional fabrics, and press of! the flnished'product.

It isv also an important object of the invention to provide a knitting-machinedwith mechanisms, such asla knitting mechanism, a loop transfer (mechanism, a fabric narrowing mechanism,v a

-as continuations of the high heel portions of a combination leg and foot full-fashioned stock! ing blank, andto interknit said blank with the heel tabs. It is, however, to,be understood that the invention is in no way limited to such a heels!- or heeling machine.

In these drawings:

Figure 1 is a top 'plan of the knitting machine with certain parts removed for the sake of clarity;

, Figure 2 is a section taken on line 22 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is an enlarged rear elevation of the knitting machine with certain parts removed for the sake of clarity;

Figure 4 is an end elevation of the machine looking in the direction of arrow 4- of Figure 2; t

Figure 5 is a section taken on line 5-5 of Figure 2; 1 g a) Figure 6 is a section taken on line 8-8 of Fig- Figure 11 is a view similarto Figure 10 with a section taken on line 8-4 of Figthe parts in another operative position;

Figure 7';

'Figure 12 is a side elevationof the transfer dea section taken on line I S-I 3 of ,Figure 13 is Figure 14 is a. detail in front elevation illustrating the guiding means for theneedle'bar, k'nock- [over comb, and transfer device;v

pressod. mechanism,- a fabric blank transfer j mechanism, a fabric blank feedingmechanism, a

T, Figure 15 is'an enlarged detail of cam and associated elements;

'Figure 16 15's section taken 'on line l6l6 of Figure 6;

the Coullier parts in neutral, inoperative 

